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The Proscriptive Principle And Logics Of Analytic Implication, Thomas M. Ferguson
The Proscriptive Principle And Logics Of Analytic Implication, Thomas M. Ferguson
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The analogy between inference and mereological containment goes at least back to Aristotle, whose discussion in the Prior Analytics motivates the validity of the syllogism by way of talk of parts and wholes. On this picture, the application of syllogistic is merely the analysis of concepts, a term that presupposes—through the root ἀνά + λύω —a mereological background.
In the 1930s, such considerations led William T. Parry to attempt to codify this notion of logical containment in his system of analytic implication AI. Parry’s original system AI was later expanded to the system PAI. The hallmark of Parry’s systems—and of …
Epistemic Considerations On Extensive-Form Games, Cagil Tasdemir
Epistemic Considerations On Extensive-Form Games, Cagil Tasdemir
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this thesis, we study several topics in extensive-form games. First, we consider perfect information games with belief revision with players who are tolerant of each other’s hypothetical errors. We bound the number of hypothetical non-rational moves of a player that will be tolerated by other players without revising the belief on that player’s rationality on future moves, and investigate which games yield the backward induction solution.
Second, we consider players who have no way of assigning probabilities to various possible outcomes, and define players as conservative, moderate and aggressive depending on the way they choose, and show that all …